Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984469390)

"In Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, it's the sentence that is alive and that is also a kind of architecture or landscape." --Amina Cain

"Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory--of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. If any can. In Ravicka, meanings--indeed most contact of any kind--remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial. Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings. Rather, she thinks (and writes) the drifts, partitions, and immobilities of identity, affect, communication, the very possibility of being human. Profound, compelling--haunting, even--the story of Ravicka is astonishingly ours." (Lyn Hejinian)

Author: Renee Gladman
ISBN-10: 0984469397
ISBN-13: 9780984469390
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.30d